Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the UFW, he defied antiriot acts, led boycotts and organized marches. He also antagonized Mexican-American politicians. "At that time," he says, "the UFW was considered unpopular with the Anglos." The problem was that because the non-Anglos were politically inactive, there was no pressure to pay attention to their cause. The solution was La Raza...
...Attorney General insists that he is still committed to enforcing civil rights laws and is only rejecting the traditional remedies of busing and quotas, which have become increasingly unpopular with the public. "Our goal is the same as our predecessors, to eliminate the vestiges of discrimination," says Smith. "We are just going about it in a different way." That way, he says, includes improving the quality of black schools instead of automatically seeking to integrate them, and seeking compensation for people who can prove they have been discriminated against by employers. But critics charge that Smith's way amounts...
Carazo is probably the most unpopular President in the history of Central America's showplace democracy, and the reason is not hard to fathom: the nation's economy is in ruins. Inflation is roaring along at 40% a year (up from 20% in 1980). The unemployment rate is 12%, strikes have broken out, and consumer goods are gradually disappearing from store shelves. In late July, the government was unable to make payments on the $2.6 billion it owes to more than 130 international banks-a hefty $1,180 per capita debt in a land of 2.2 million...
Articulate, painstaking in his research, Wilkins mastered powerful arguments for unpopular positions and, more difficult, could translate them into public support. An adviser to Presidents, he led the fight to desegregate the armed forces, marched long before demonstrations were legal, and in 1963 initiated one of the first major lunch-counter sit-ins, in Jackson, Miss. When 250,000 people gathered on the Washington Mall, Martin Luther King Jr. captured the headlines with his fiery oratory, but Roy Wilkins was a key figure in organizing the march and in the backstage lobbying that ultimately achieved passage of the 1964 Civil...
...official weekly, was founded amid the tumult as an alternative to the student press, which was seen as radical. Today, 11 years after she assumed the helm of the main news office. Lord still sympathizes with those young people who lashed out at authority while Washington pursued the most unpopular war in the nation's history: "The universities were viewed as a place where students' voices would be heard, and certainly they were right...